Supreme Magus novel Chapter 130

Despite Professor Marth intervention, the situation degenerated as soon Raaz and Linjos managed to recover from the vicious verbal beating they just endured.

"Who is that raving lunatic and why is he allowed to have any contact with the students? He has no shame nor regard for the feelings of others!" Normally Raaz would have been humble and submissive.

For someone that had never left the small village of Lutia in over thirty years, the White Griffon academy was intimidating. Raaz was well aware that even a single brick of the castle was worth more money than he could earn in his whole life.

Raaz still couldn’t believe one of his children had managed to get admitted in a place like that. He suspected that behind all his brave talk, Lith was actually having a hard life, surrounded by rich, spoiled kids.

In any other circumstance, he would have never stepped inside, fearing that his presence alone was enough to put Lith in embarrassment.

But now after his son had been severely hurt because of the incompetence of the so called ’Professors’, not only he had been forced to listen to Linjos’ rants about the academy’s prestige, but also had to suffer a young, handsome dandy trying to seduce his wife in front of his eyes.

That was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. He didn’t care anymore if the man in front of him was the Headmaster or the King himself, Raaz was determined to give him a piece of his mind.

On the other hand, Linjos wanted nothing more than join him and tear Manohar apart limb from limb. That man had always been a nightmare for the public relationships, either avoiding social events or making a mess the rare times he deigned to attend them.

And now, in less than a day Linjos had been assaulted and humiliated by him twice, both times in front of students and staff alike, destroying whatever pride and dignity his role was supposed to have.

- "I wish I could tell him that if the previous Headmistress that recruited Manohar wasn’t already dead, I would kill her myself. Right after throwing Manohar from the academy’s highest tower. But when I accepted this job, I knew there was an elephant in the room." –

"Despite his many, many flaws, I can assure you that Professor Manohar is that kind of genius that appears only once in one hundred years. He is an invaluable asset for the academy and the Kingdom, whom has already saved countless lives, probably even your son’s."

Raaz wasn’t satisfied by the answer, but Elina squeezed his hand tight, stopping him in his tracks.

"Are you in much pain, dear?" She asked Lith, ruffling his hair.

"No, mom. On the contrary, I feel groggy but relaxed." He replied, quite surprised to have hair again. He had yet to have an occasion to look at himself in a mirror.

"That’s because we injected you with several potions to help you sleep and recover." Linjos explained.

Marth returned, bringing along five members of the medical staff and Lith’s missing arm. Usually for such a simple case a single Professor was enough, but they wanted to show to both Lith and his parents how much they cared.

The arm was completely wrapped in pure white linen gauze, not leaving even the fingertips exposed. Being detached from a living body, it couldn’t be healed, so it was bound to be bloody and burned.

Lith imagined that covering it was another form of courtesy towards his parents, since no healer would have blinked at the sight of it.

The moment the arm was within five meters (16 feet) from him, Lith felt that something odd was happening. His mana core started stirring inside of him, trying to release mana.

Lith was too tired to put up a fight without a good reason, so he stopped resisting.

- "Solus, can you describe to me what’s happening? I can’t activate Life Vision without flooding my eyes with mana."

"Tendrils of energy are going out of your body and connecting to the arm. It is... alive?" –

When Lith felt the itchy pain from the burns, he was so surprised to unintentionally wriggle his left hand’s fingers. Luckily Marth was still walking, so the sudden movement went unnoticed.